Walter Benjamin

Dark times is a phrase from Brecht . It is almost synonymous here with the twentieth century, though HA has a piece on Lessing , who lived two centuries earlier. She uses men to signify...

Hyperdream posits a line of communication to the dead, and explores other mysterious lines of connection. One of these is a bed bought by Eve, the semi-mythical mother of the narrator, Hélène, from someone called...

Her life of striving and enquiry has been little noticed by posterity, even in the present recrudescence of interest in women writers in history. Just recently several academic articles have appeared, and on 28 May...

Bryher enabled the escape of one hundred and five refugees (including her acquaintance the theorist Walter Benjamin ) from Nazi Germany.

Her next task was the struggle to secure publication for manuscripts left in her keeping and that of her husband by Walter Benjamin . She also needed work, and became first a literary reviewer and...

As usual with Rich, the six sections of this book fuse the poetic with the political (as reflected in her allusions to Gerard Manley Hopkins , Walter Benjamin , Homer , Keats ). The first...

In Paris she moved in a circle of anti-Fascist exiles, including theorist Walter Benjamin , novelist Hermann Broch , and poet and philosopher Heinrich Blücher , who was by this time an anti-Stalinist Communist. To...